Finance Chair for the district
has the following responsibilities.
Reports
to the district chair.
Ensures
implementation of council finance policies.
Serves
as a member of the council fund development committee.
Recruits
and trains a committee to support tasks provided
by the council finance committee.
Promotes
the district’s share of council finance campaigns.
Organizes
and carry out a successful Friends of Scouting annual campaign, and meet the
goal by the targeted date in conjunction with the FOS campaign chairs.
Supports
the council “project selling” programs.
Supports
the council endowment/major gifts development plan.
Informs
units of the unit fundraising policy and assist in the review and approval of
unit requests.
Supports
district activities that involve income and expenses, ensuring proper policy
and controls.
Provides
recognition to donors, along with information on how their dollars helped serve
youth.
Successful
funding of the council is the direct result of successfully
conducted
fund development programs within each district.
Each
district within the council has funding goals. These goals
are
based upon a fair-share formula, based on the potential of
the
district and the needs of the council. The district fund
development chair assists in
determining and raising the goals.